Your Labs Are Normal. So Why Do You Feel Like Crap?
You don't want anything wrong with your labs. But you also know something is off. So why don't the two line up?
This episode is Dr. Z breaking down one of the most common and most frustrating experiences in healthcare — feeling terrible while being told everything looks fine. Not because your doctor is wrong or bad at their job. But because the system they're working in wasn't built to find what you're dealing with.
Lab ranges are geographic averages. Men and women, young and old, sick and well, all mixed together into one bell curve — and the goal is to catch the outliers on either end. If…
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